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Showing 1 to 20 of 20 for “"environmental restoration"”.
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Environmental restoration in the Atchafalaya Basin : boundaries and interventions
… how the different views of the Basin impact its environmental restoration and management. I answer this question by describing how the agencies transform elements of the Basin into maps, plans and various management activities by relying on science, aerial photography, and long-time residents of …
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National Patterns and Community Impacts of Major Domestic U.S. Military Base Closures, 1988-present
… versus BRAC bases, statistical attributes, environmental restoration, and reuse of bases. Comparative case studies supplement the analysis, highlighting rural versus urban location, success versus failure, politics, conflict, and local versus national goals. Thesis findings are that: 92 …
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Trigger Point Theory as Aesthetic Activism
… Activism: A Transdisciplinary Approach to Environmental Restoration Aviva A. Rahmani This dissertation presents a new approach to addressing environmental degradation based on transdisciplinary ecological art. Transdisciplinarity is defined here as merging art and science to discover new …
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Prioritizing stakeholder concerns in environmental risk management
The management of environmental programs affects a great variety of issues and involves several stakeholders with diverse, and often conflicting, concerns. Any methodology proposed for environmental decision making should, then, be capable of integrating technical and value-laden objectives in a …
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Developing flexibility through alternative project delivery methods for the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers project management business process
… construction, civil works, water navigation, environmental restoration, and disaster response. This research concludes with recommendations for selecting alternative project delivery methods best-fit to meet the distinct needs of each USACE business program. Explicitly, the application of …
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Ecological insights from bacterial networks
… with relevance to both human health and environmental restoration. I begin with the discovery of a massive, global network of recent gene exchange linking even distantly related bacteria from the far corners of earth. To uncover this network, I developed and validated a simple …
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An Analysis of the Social and Political Elements Influencing the Emerging Kelp Aquaculture Industry in British Columbia
… strong global and regional desires for environmentally sustainable development in the marine space. Aquaculture is a key category in the blue economy. Seaweed aquaculture has been steadily increasing worldwide because of its potential to address multiple social priorities, such as …
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What role do metrics of value play in translating policy into action in partnership management of landscape restoration?
… response has been a (moral) demand for environmental restoration. This call to action, driven by the hegemonic sustainability discourse, proposes interventions driven by partnerships of local and state agents, empowered to act immediately despite pervading uncertainty around appropriate …
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Performance of three oyster mushroom species grown on maize stalk supplemented with wheat bran and maize flour
… mushroom cultivation adds value to the economy, environmental restoration and food security (provision) worldwide. However, there is paucity of information to the mushroom growers about the strategy of improving yield and production of mushrooms at minimal costs with reduced contamination rate. …
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Water as property: the social impact of water reform on agriculturalists in the Murray-Darling Basin New South Wales
… the State clawed back over allocated water for environmental restoration. The aims of this study were: (a) to observe the implications of restrictions on water use for farmers under the Water Management Act 2000 (New South Wales). (b) to enquire into the strategies used by dryland and irrigation …
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Starting from the River Again. Community Processes to Regenerate Spoiled Ecosystems
… within the growing debate, in the field of environmental planning, focused on the necessity to integrate scientific knowledge with a broader understanding of how social-ecological system works (Gunderson and Hollings 2001) and how communities use various types of knowledge to innovate the …
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Assessment of multi-stakeholders' collaborative efforts during and after oil pipelines disaster in Nigeria.
… pipeline disaster include human rehabilitation, environmental restoration, and the prevention of further disasters. The framework captures the relevant stakeholders and their roles in disaster mitigation and management. Improved information and intelligence sharing, better decision-making, more …
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The Investigation of the Soil Seedbank in a Long-term Mowing and Fertilization Experiment
… role in plant community dynamics and can aid in environmental restoration efforts. Studies have shown that fire suppression, anthropogenic nutrient addition, and human-altered hydrology can all have negative effects on aboveground vegetation, such as a decrease in biodiversity. However, little is …
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The ecology of community environmental groups: Integrating restoration, partnerships and citizen science
… a grassroots, nationwide network of community environmental groups has been expanding its contribution to restoring, protecting and enhancing these terrestrial and aquatic habitats. At the same time, government agencies are becoming increasingly reliant on voluntary community input to enhance …
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Multiscale patterns of mammal diversity and occurrence in the Karoo
… species, which currently focus exclusively on environmental restoration of assumed preferred habitat. Overall, my findings reveal a diverse community of mostly medium sized generalist species that have persisted throughout the Karoo despite hundreds of years of sustained human impact. Larger …
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Restoration and Water Management in the Atchafalaya River Basin, Louisiana
<p>Environmental restoration in aquatic systems requires innovative approaches that combine scientific understanding, socioeconomic demands, and local stakeholder values into decisions. However, changing approaches to water management to address these requirements is difficult because of scientific …
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Effect of heavy metals on salt march biota
Environmental restoration of disturbed, degraded and potentially contaminated wetland sites aims for the persistent and sustainable re-establishment of biological communities and important wetland functions. An ecologically informed restoration strategy presupposes some understanding of these …
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La organización del espacio lacustre : desde la superación del planeamiento sectorial
… should prompt a sectoral fusion, considering the environmental limits and the impact of activities. The lacustrian space is a junctural system where the changes generated by human actions reflects the culture of the society that dwells the territory. So, would be appropriate to organize the …
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How climate change and agriculture could reshape the midwestern stream fish communities
Submission original under an indefinite embargo labeled 'Open Access'. The submission was exported from vireo on 2022-11-15 without embargo terms